Ancient Dream Mysteries with Sarah Janes

Sarah Janes is a writer, researcher and avid lucid dreamer. Her first book Initiation into Dream Mysteries, Drinking from the Pool of Mnemosyne is coming out this year in the US and early next year in Britain. It explores the ancient history and philosophy of dream therapy and sleep medicine, beginning in deepest antiquity through to ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece. Sharing more than a decade of research on Sleep Temples and Mystery Schools of the Esoteric Tradition, Sarah explores the evolution of imagination, memory, and consciousness throughout the ages and proposes that dreams have been fundamental in the creation and development of culture. Sarah curates events and talk series, such as her recent series exploring feminine power in the ancient world coinciding with the touring exhibition #FEMININEPOWER at the British Museum. She is also currently working with author and biologist Rupert Sheldrake and Guy Hayward at the British Pilgrimage Trust to reinvigorate the practice of dream incubation on pilgrimage in Britain. Sarah co-hosts a weekly chat show - Consciousness Hour with Anthony Peake, discussing life after death, dreams, Near Death Experience and OBEs, psychedelics, altered states, synchronicity, parapsychology and time perception.

In this episode, Sarah shines light on Mnemosyne, memory and imagination, ancient sleep temples and healing dream rituals, lucid dreaming and hypnagogia phenomena, dream pilgrimage, psyche architecture and orgasmic portals to consciousness expansion.

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